On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 03:12:25PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi folks, > > Time for me to ask for help this time.... > > What is the official rescue procedure when after installing the guest > additions on a Linux guest (32 bit F19 beta, Win7 SP1 64bit host, AMD-V > enabled) you reboot the VM to a non-working display? > > Screenshots: > http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6610/rsmt.png > http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3827/0wp2.png > > In the OS/2 world, things were easy: ctrl-alt-f1, and from the pre-boot > menu, selecting V for "Boot to VGA mode" > > In the Linux world,however,developers think that making things more > complicated is actually "progress", hence the involution from grub1 > bootargs to this grub2 insanity... > > http://www.intdblog.com/2009/09/grub-2-graphical-boot-tips-to-set.html > > Any step by step guide for old geeks with ADD? ;) > > Thanks in advance, > Your old lousy list admin... ;) > FC
The only suggestion I can think of is to boot the guest from a live CD, chroot into the guest's root file system, and remove the guest additions. That should work in theory. FYI, I have an ssh server running in my gnu/linux machines physical/virtual for just this type of situation if I end up not having audio, and therefore no speech. HTH. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
